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Isabella DaSilva, a fiery grad student from Cornell's wine
program is eager to leave her past behind her and forge a future in the
vineyards of the West as an apprentice at Chateau Sauvage, a winery seeking to
produce wine like no other California wineries had so far -- Rhone varietals.

She arrives at Chateau Sauvage to find that wine might not
be her only interest. The winemaker, Jonathan Sauvage, is tall, dark, and
handsome, and clearly in need of help. Together, they work to make a pioneering
wine in an effort to keep the struggling winery afloat. Each struggles with
their demons -- hers in the form of a painful and mysterious past; his created
by memories of what once might have been. In the process, they find that the
pain of their shattered pasts fit together perfectly, making their union as
perfect as the wine it produces.

A Rare Vintage features an intense and commanding hero who
isn’t afraid to ask for help, and a woman who knows that while she might
technically be the apprentice, she has plenty to teach Jonathan Sauvage.

Delancey
Stewart has lived on both coasts, in big cities and small towns. She's been a
pharmaceutical rep, a personal trainer and a wine seller. Despite lots of other
interests, she has always been a writer in some way shape or form.

A
military spouse and the mother of two small boys, her current job titles
include pirate captain, monster hunter, Lego assembler and story reader. She
tackles all these efforts at her current home in Southern Maryland.

Delancey
Stewart is the author of Through a Dusty
Window: New York City Stories 1910-2001 and A Rare Vintage, the first in her Wine Country Romance Series.

She
is also working on the Girlfriends of Gotham Series for Swoon Romance. The
first book, Men and Martinis, will be
released in Fall 2013.

At dinner, Jonathan could feel
Isabella's eyes on him as he spooned stew into his mouth. His sister's cooking
was the one thing he had to look forward to each day, but he was too distracted
to enjoy it; plagued by the lingering questions that had been hanging in the
kitchen when he entered. He knew that Vicki was worried about him, but he was
surprised that she'd divulge so much to a perfect stranger her first night at
their dinner table.

"So you told our guest all
about Charlotte, I guess?" Jonathan said, gazing into his bowl.

Isabella gave him a direct look
then.

"Nope, I didn't even mention
her." Vicki said, pulling the salad toward her plate. "But now it
seems you have to."

"No," Isabella
interjected. "I mean," she looked up at Jonathan, her pale skin
flushed. "I don't want to intrude. I'm not really a guest, or a
visitor…I'm here to work. I'm touched that you'd include me in your family meal
like this, but I didn’t expect it. I certainly don’t expect anything
more."

"Don't be silly, Isabella,"
Vicki said.

"No, really. I'm not used to
anything more," Isabella said.

Jonathan let himself look up at
her then. Something about the way she said that, staring into her bowl, made
her seem so vulnerable. What was beneath the smooth porcelain surface? It
seemed that this astute wine student—so confident when telling him how to
manage his vineyard—might have secrets of her own.

"Charlotte used to live here
with Jonathan," Vicki said. "And now she's gone, that's all."

Jonathan shot a fierce look at
his sister, who returned the look with defiant bright eyes.

"Charlotte was my
fiancé," Jonathan said. "We had a…a disagreement." He finished.
He stalled, playing Charlotte's departure over in his mind for the millionth
time. His heart tore all over again as he recalled her sharing the news that he
had thought would be a perfect beginning for them. She hadn't agreed. To her,
the beginning of life stirring within her was no more welcome than the new life
he'd wanted to build between them. Jonathan clenched his fists as he watched
her leave all over again, vowing to end what they had begun. He hated how
powerless the memory made him feel, how helpless he'd been to stop her from
ending everything.

"I see," was all
Isabella said.

He looked up to find her watching
him with those hazel eyes. There was a depth there that he didn't want to see,
but couldn't help to be drawn to. Something about her gaze made him want to get
nearer to her, ask her to wrap those long thin pale arms around him. He held
her gaze a moment too long, his nerves firing almost as if she were touching
him. He flushed and looked down the table at his sister.

She was watching them; her spoon
paused in front of her mouth and a faint smile on her lips.

He shot her a dark look to let
her know that he didn't appreciate being exposed to a stranger.

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In
the last year, Joanne has survived repeated attempts on her life,
wholesale slaughter, and the dissolution on the cornerstone of her
new existence.

And
the hard times are only beginning.

As
the line between right and wrong, friend and foe, and good and evil
continue to blur, Joanne is forced to face one irrefutable fact.

The
hardest demons to fight are the ones you can't see.

HUNT

The
Winged Series

Book
4

The
last six months have seen more death and destruction than any could
have predicted.

And
the war is only beginning.

With
the fight taking Joanne and her friends from city streets to
abandoned farms to the center of the earth, only one thing is
certain.

The
hunters are now the hunted.

This
book contains scenes of graphic sex and violence. Reader discretion
is advised.

About
the Author:

L.M.
Pruitt has been reading and writing for as long as she can remember.
A native of Florida with a love of New Orleans, she has the uncanny
ability to find humor in most things and would probably kill a
plastic plant. She knows this because she's killed bamboo. Twice. As
a result, she's not allowed to walk in the gardening department of
any store without supervision. She's also not allowed in the card
aisle of any grocery store without an escort since she'll spend
thirty minutes opening cards and laughing for no good reason. She is
the author of the best-selling Jude Magdalyn series, the Moon Rising
series, and the Frankie Post series. She continues to make her home
in Florida in spite of the heat and mosquitos and shares her home
with two cats--one of them smart, the other not so much.

Tough teenager Krista escaped to the
safety of Florida after her parents were killed by the zombie horde.
She united with General Liet, a distant cousin, and moved with him to
North Platte to help build a wall to keep the zombies in the West.
Krista fell in love with Quinn, a survivor and fighter from the
zombie-infested wildlands of the West, and together they freed the
garrison at North Platte from the power-hungry Liet.

But zombies aren’t the only enemy
they have to face...

Now, North Platte is free, but Liet was
not the only one using the zombie apocalypse to control their people.
Florida is ruled by five ruthless Families, who use intimidation and
the threat of the zombie horde to coerce their populace. Krista and
Quinn hatch a desperate plan to run guns into the state and help the
people revolt. Krista and Quinn, labeled as rebels run for their
lives when the Families attack North Platte. The Families want them
captured, the zombies want to eat them, and other survivors want them
dead. Caught in between powerful forces, they must survive long
enough to devise a new plan and put it into action, all while trying
to solidify their new relationship and trying not to self-destruct in
the meantime.

The world has come to an
end. It doesn’t go out with a bang, or even a whimper. It goes out
in an orgy of blood and the dead rising from their graves to feast on
living flesh. As democracy crumples and the world melts into anarchy,
five families in the U.S. rise to protect the survivors.

The undead hate a humid
environment, so they are migrating westward to escape its
deteriorating effects. The survivors are constructing a wall in North
Platte to keep the zombie threat to the west, while tyranny rules
among the humans to the east.

Capable but naïve Krista
is 15 when the first attacks occur, and she loses her family and
barely escapes with her life. She makes her way to the wall and
begins a new life. But, as the undead threat grows and dictators
brainwash those she cares about, Krista must fight not only to
survive but also to defend everything she holds dear—her country,
her freedom, and ultimately those she loves.

About
the Author:

I write fiction under the pen name
Pembroke Sinclair, and I have had several short stories published.
My story, “Sohei,” was named one of the Best Stories of 2008 by
The Cynic Online Magazine. I have novellas and a short story
collection forthcoming from Musa Publishing and eTreasures
Publishing. I have two novels, Coming from Nowhere (adult, sci fi)
and Life After the Undead (YA, horror), that are available from
eTreasures Publishing, as well as Death to the Undead (YA, sequel to
Life After the Undead), which is forthcoming. Life After the Undead
was a Top Ten Finisher in the Preditors and Editors Reader’s Poll
in the YA category and the cover art category.

Under my real name, from March 2008 to
January 2011, I wrote scientific articles for Western
Farmer-Stockman. I have a nonfiction book, Life Lessons from Slasher
Films, scheduled for release in July 2012 from Scarecrow Publishing
(an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield).

I have my Master’s in English, and I
am a freelance content editor for Musa Publishing, as well as a
former content and line editor for eTreasures Publishing.

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Well... perhaps “normal”
was never in the cards for her. As she questions her own sanity and spirals out
of control, a man appears on her doorstep and tells her that, like him, she’s a
witch.

Pulled in all directions,
her unbridled magic draws dangerous attention and Jade wonders if she’s made the
worst mistake of her life by joining a coven, or if she’ll even live long enough
to regret it.

Margarita loves the art,
creativity and romanticism of storytelling. Sometimes, however, the act of
putting pen to paper proves challenging, elusive. She develops genuine,
relatable characters which grow in the hearts of her readers. From that
foundation, the stories flourish into a warm friend.

She enjoys pursuits which
blur the lines between the analytical and creative sides of her brain. This
includes her day job in electronic data management, where she uses her
creativity to solve logical problems, and also her lessons learning to play the
cello, where she finds beauty in the structure of music and the instrument. She
believes there is a place for both logic and imagination to work together. When
they do, the results are magical.

Margarita has a special
spot in her heart for dogs and lives with three of them. It can be a little
overwhelming but the quality snuggle time makes up for
it.

Knight Blindness

About the Book

Title: Knight BlindnessAuthor: Chris KarlsenSeries:Format: Ebook and PrintPublication Date: July 2013 Publisher: Chris KarlsenISBN Genre: Paranormal Romance (Time Travel)Blurb: Ready for battle, Medieval English knight, Stephen Palmer, charges into the French enemy’s cavalry line. Heeding a warning given months before, he hesitates as he comes face-to-face with the knight in the warning. Struck down in the year 1356, he finds himself landing in the year 2013. Grievously wounded, he’s taken to a nearby hospital. Confused by the new world surrounding him, he attempts to convince the staff he’s from another time, only to find they think him mad.

Rescued by friends, who, to his surprise, have also come through time, he must find a way to function in this odd modern England. He is quickly enchanted by the kind Esme Crippen, the young woman hired to tutor him. Unfortunately, she too thinks him adorable, but mad. He must discover the means for getting her to believe the truth, all the while, unknown to him, he didn’t come forward in time alone. The enemy knight has also traveled to 2013.French noble, Roger Marchand, doesn’t question why the English knight who charged him hesitated. That fraction of a pause gave him the advantage needed and he brought his sword down upon the Englishman’s helmet hard, unhorsing the knight. He moved to finish the Englishman off when the world changed in a rush of sensations as he is ripped through time.Seeking a reason for the terrible event, he enters a nearby chapel. There, thinking God has chosen him for a quest to turn French defeat that day in 1356 to victory, he sets out to find the English knight. The man he is convinced holds the key to time. If he returns to the day of the battle, he can warn his king of mistakes that snatched victory from them.

About the Author

I was born and raised in Chicago. My father was a history professor and my mother was, and is, a voracious reader. I grew up with a love of history and books.

My parents also love traveling, a passion they passed onto me. I wanted to see the places I read about, see the land and monuments from the time periods that fascinated me. I’ve had the good fortune to travel extensively throughout Europe, the Near East, and North Africa.

I am a retired police detective. I spent twenty-five years in law enforcement with two different agencies. My desire to write came in my early teens. After I retired, I decided to pursue that dream.

As an Army
psychologist, Sydney Porter has heard her share of horror stories.
The battle-scarred, down-trodden, and guilt-ridden have come to her
office, seeking her help. When a highly decorated soldier is
referred to her, she feels confident she can help heal his wounds.
The chemistry between herself and Sergeant Aiden Thane is
instantaneous. Sparks ignite and against her friend’s advice, she
opens both her home and her heart.

Torn between a voice of
reason and her undeniable feelings, Sydney begins to question just
what is hiding behind her lover’s decorated uniform. What secrets
are hidden behind his Purple Heart?

About Christie A.C. Gucker

Christie A.C. Gucker lives in NJ with her husband, two daughters and a menagerie of pets. Being a mother is one of the greatest joys of her life. She has worked in the advertising industry for over 20 years as a degreed artist, but also works in the fine arts, especially sculpting out of stone or snapping photographs. Christie is also a singer and musician, and can be found singing on a few CDs.

Christie
A.C. Gucker lives in NJ with her husband, two daughters and a
menagerie of pets. Being a mother is one of the greatest joys of her
life. She has worked in the advertising industry for over 20 years as
a degreed artist, but also works in the fine arts, especially
sculpting out of stone or snapping photographs. Christie is also a
singer and musician, and can be found singing on a few CDs.

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